[GRASS5] GRASS 5.3 new bug in s.in.ascii

[Michael Barton]

I have hit a bug in GRASS 5.3--the first I've run into in a couple 
months of pretty solid work with this version.

When trying to import a simple text file into the sites format, I get 
an error if the file contains non-numeric strings. Here is the file I 
was trying to import


501175.0877193,3836254.44444444,1968,room
502782.10526316,3839709.53216374,1915,room
502621.40350877,3842789.64912281,1889,room
503183.85964912,3844798.42105263,1874,room
501175.0877193,3842602.16374269,1894,roomblock
506505.02923977,3837566.84210526,1941,roomblock

s.in.ascii sites=clearcreek_sites input=clearcreek_sites.txt fs=,

It doesn't matter whether or not I put quotes around the character 
strings. The error I get is:

*** malloc[14292]: error for object 0x357b: Pointer being reallocated 
was not allocated
ERROR: G_realloc: out of memory

If I get rid of the string fields (i.e., 'room' and 'roomblock'), it 
imports just fine.

I'd SWEAR this was working just fine in a previous version of 
s.in.ascii I was using last November. I didn't notice anything had been 
changed in the CVS for s.in.ascii in the past few months so I don't 
understand why this WAS working but isn't now.

Michael Barton
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Michael Barton, Professor & Curator
Department of Anthropology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ  85287-2402
USA

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